tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post5714737958309689809..comments2019-03-11T14:26:43.234-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Some Practical Suggestions for Teaching Creative ThinkingDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-3312123367186956602018-03-28T12:05:32.933-07:002018-03-28T12:05:32.933-07:00Oh, wow, I love this — a lot. It&#39;s similar to ...Oh, wow, I love this — a lot. It&#39;s similar to my thought of having them outline a text book. Or a related idea I had after reading your comment: Having them design a syllabus for the class they&#39;re taking. Or two syllabi for the class they&#39;re taking. <br /><br />So thank you, truly. Thinking about your class is what inspired my post — which came to me while hiking in the redwoods. Go figure. <br /><br />Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-39905987297175909672018-03-27T22:45:03.979-07:002018-03-27T22:45:03.979-07:00*come up WITH good questions*come up WITH good questionsMr. Ziebarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05869170784008266935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-58860607296346395022018-03-27T21:23:17.412-07:002018-03-27T21:23:17.412-07:00Thank you Daniel for the challenge to keep pushing...Thank you Daniel for the challenge to keep pushing our practice forward! These assignments could be used in any number of ways, applied to any subject. <br /><br />After reading A New Culture of Learning by Thomas and Brown I&#39;ve been obsessed with teaching students to come up the good questions rather than having them hunt for someone else&#39;s answer. Thomas and Brown&#39;s idea of &quot;learning to be&quot; trains students through participation to &quot;sense what constitutes an interesting problem and knowing what constitutes an elegant solution.&quot;<br /><br />I walk students through the Question Formulation Technique (brainstorming questions around a particular topic and whittling them down to just a couple) and then unleash the students into a text where they read for how the text might inform their questions.<br /><br />Instead of getting one reading of a text, mine, year after year, I get dozens. <br /><br />I tell my students that my goal for them is to find one question in my class that haunts them for the rest of their lives.<br /><br />Thanks again for this. We&#39;ll share it widely.Mr. Ziebarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05869170784008266935noreply@blogger.com